Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972
Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 | |
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Type of eclipse | |
Nature | Total |
Gamma | 0.6872 |
Magnitude | 1.0379 |
Maximum eclipse | |
Duration | 156 s (2 min 36 s) |
Coordinates | 63°30′N 94°12′W / 63.5°N 94.2°W |
Max. width of band | 175 km (109 mi) |
Times (UTC) | |
Greatest eclipse | 19:46:38 |
References | |
Saros | 126 (45 of 72) |
Catalog # (SE5000) | 9448 |
A total solar eclipse occurred on July 10, 1972. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.
It was visible as a total eclipse along a path of totality that began in Sea of Okhotsk which is to the north of Japan and traversed the far eastern portions of the Soviet Union (which now belongs to Russia), northern Alaska in the United States, Northern Canada, eastern Quebec and the Canadian Maritimes. A partial eclipse was visible over Siberia, Canada and the northern and eastern United States.
Related eclipses
Solar eclipses of 1971-1974
This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.[1]
The partial solar eclipses on February 25, 1971 and August 20, 1971 occur in the previous lunar year eclipse set.
Solar eclipse series sets from 1971 to 1974 | ||||||
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Descending node | Ascending node | |||||
Saros | Map | Gamma | Saros | Map | Gamma | |
116 | July 22, 1971 Partial |
1.513 | 121 | January 16, 1972 Annular |
−0.9365 | |
126 | July 10, 1972 Total |
0.6872 | 131 | January 4, 1973 Annular |
−0.2644 | |
136 | June 30, 1973 Total |
−0.0785 | 141 | December 24, 1973 Annular |
0.4171 | |
146 | June 20, 1974 Total |
−0.8239 | 151 | December 13, 1974 Partial |
1.0797 |
Saros 126
This eclipse is a part of Saros series 126, repeating every 18 years, 11 days, and containing 72 events. The series started with a partial solar eclipse on March 10, 1179. It contains annular eclipses from June 4, 1323 through April 4, 1810; hybrid eclipses from April 14, 1828 through May 6, 1864; and total eclipses from May 17, 1882 through August 23, 2044. The series ends at member 72 as a partial eclipse on May 3, 2459. Its eclipses are tabulated in three columns; every third eclipse in the same column is one exeligmos apart, so they all cast shadows over approximately the same parts of the Earth.
The longest duration of annularity was produced by member 11 at 6 minutes, 30 seconds on June 26, 1359, and the longest duration of totality was produced by member 45 at 2 minutes, 36 seconds on July 10, 1972. All eclipses in this series occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit.[2]
Series members 36–57 occur between 1801 and 2200: | ||
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36 | 37 | 38 |
April 4, 1810 |
April 14, 1828 |
April 25, 1846 |
39 | 40 | 41 |
May 6, 1864 |
May 17, 1882 |
May 28, 1900 |
42 | 43 | 44 |
June 8, 1918 |
June 19, 1936 |
June 30, 1954 |
45 | 46 | 47 |
July 10, 1972 |
July 22, 1990 |
August 1, 2008 |
48 | 49 | 50 |
August 12, 2026 |
August 23, 2044 |
September 3, 2062 |
51 | 52 | 53 |
September 13, 2080 |
September 25, 2098 |
October 6, 2116 |
54 | 55 | 56 |
October 17, 2134 |
October 28, 2152 |
November 8, 2170 |
57 | ||
November 18, 2188 |
Metonic series
The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.
21 eclipse events between July 11, 1953 and July 11, 2029 | ||||
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July 10–11 | April 29–30 | February 15–16 | December 4 | September 21–23 |
116 | 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 |
July 11, 1953 |
April 30, 1957 |
February 15, 1961 |
December 4, 1964 |
September 22, 1968 |
126 | 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 |
July 10, 1972 |
April 29, 1976 |
February 16, 1980 |
December 4, 1983 |
September 23, 1987 |
136 | 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 |
July 11, 1991 |
April 29, 1995 |
February 16, 1999 |
December 4, 2002 |
September 22, 2006 |
146 | 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 |
July 11, 2010 |
April 29, 2014 |
February 15, 2018 |
December 4, 2021 |
September 21, 2025 |
156 | ||||
July 11, 2029 |
"You're So Vain"
The eclipse is referenced in the lyrics of Carly Simon's 1972 hit song "You're So Vain." The subject of the song, after witnessing his racehorse win "naturally" at the Saratoga Race Course, flies his Learjet to Nova Scotia to see the eclipse; Simon uses the two phenomena as examples of how the subject seems to be "where (he) should be all the time." Simon released the song four months after the eclipse.
Notes
- ^ van Gent, R.H. "Solar- and Lunar-Eclipse Predictions from Antiquity to the Present". A Catalogue of Eclipse Cycles. Utrecht University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
- ^ "NASA - Catalog of Solar Eclipses of Saros 126". eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov.
References
- Earth visibility chart and eclipse statistics Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
- Foto solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 in Russia
- Foto solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 in Russia (2)
- Image solar eclipse of July 10, 1972